66 Quotes by Walter J. Phillips

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.

For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end – the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.

Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult – so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.